Bev Pettersen is a three-time nominee for the National Readers Choice Award and a two-time finalist in the Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart(R) Contest as well as the winner of many other international awards, including the Reader Views Reviewer's Choice Award, Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Award, NEC-RWA Reader's Choice Award, the Write Touch Readers' Award, a Kirkus Recommended Read, and a HOLT Medallion Award of Merit. She competed for five years on the Alberta Thoroughbred race circuit and is an Equestrian Canada certified coach. Bev lives in Nova Scotia with her family-humans and four-legged-and when she's not writing novels, she's riding.